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Civil War Soldiers by Mitchell, Reid
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780140263336
- Book Title
- Civil War Soldiers
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 7.8 in
- Publication Year
- 1997
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Genre
- Literary Collections, History
- Topic
- Letters, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- Item Weight
- 7.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0140263330
ISBN-13
9780140263336
eBay Product ID (ePID)
696277
Product Key Features
Book Title
Civil War Soldiers
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1997
Topic
Letters, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Genre
Literary Collections, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
7.3 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
973.7/42
Table Of Content
Note to the Penguin Edition Preface Acknowledgments 1. Wars for Freedom 2. Enemies and Savages The Enemy Encountered: Prisoners, Deserters, Fellow Soldiers The Savage Society: The Prisoner and the Prison 3. From Volunteer to Soldier: The Psychology of Service 4. The Landscape of War: The Union Soldier Views the South The Peopled Landscape The Threatening Landscape 5. The Confederate Experience Prologue: Lee's Invasion of Pennsylvania, 1863 The Confederate Soldier and the Crisis of the South Confederate Defeat and Southern Morale: A Note 6. The End of the War Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
The soldiers on both sides of the Civil War were united by a common history, and yet the legacy of this past was ambiguous, upholding both rebellion and union. Union and Confederate men went to war as Americans, convinced they fought an un-American, savage enemy. The war they fought was as emotional and catastrophic as any in history, a violent crucible that forged a new national identity. Civil War Soldiers is a fresh and compelling attempt to fathom the war's significance--then and now--and makes immediate the charged issues and bitter ironies of a nation torn by a conflict over the common ideals of liberty and justice. Drawing on diaries and letters, the focus of this pioneering study is on the men who fought, caught up in a conflict whose causes and consequences seemed as complex and contradictory to the soldiers themselves as they do to us. Reid Mitchell re-creates their experience and discusses the questions one would have most wanted to ask them: Why did you fight? How did you feel about slavery and race? What did you take home from the war? What legacy have you left us? "Fresh insights, startling descriptions, and poignant human detail about the war from the men who fought it."-- Chicago Tribune, The soldiers on both sides of the Civil War were united by a common history, and yet the legacy of this past was ambiguous, upholding both rebellion and union. Union and Confederate men went to war as Americans, convinced they fought an un-American, savage enemy. The war they fought was as emotional and catastrophic as any in history, a violent crucible that forged a new national identity. Civil War Soldiers is a fresh and compelling attempt to fathom the war's significance-then and now-and makes immediate the charged issues and bitter ironies of a nation torn by a conflict over the common ideals of liberty and justice. Drawing on diaries and letters, the focus of this pioneering study is on the men who fought, caught up in a conflict whose causes and consequences seemed as complex and contradictory to the soldiers themselves as they do to us. Reid Mitchell re-creates their experience and discusses the questions one would have most wanted to ask them- Why did you fight? How did you feel about slavery and race? What did you take home from the war? What legacy have you left us? "Fresh insights, startling descriptions, and poignant human detail about the war from the men who fought it."- Chicago Tribune
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